Organizational designs for excellence (Record no. 40146)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780074602171
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 0074602179
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 658.4
Item number KHA
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Khandwalla, Pradip N.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Organizational designs for excellence
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication New Delhi :
Name of publisher Tata McGraw-Hill Pub. Co.,
Year of publication ©1992.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages x, 330 p.:
Other physical details illustrations ;
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc How can organizations gain a competitive edge through effective management and organizational design? how do some organizations manage to perform well year after year? how are some organizations able to show striking improvement over their earlier performance? what is it that drives certain organizations to pursue an ideal or social mission? what sort of management and design do they require? how can organizations excel in terms of creativity and innovations? how can organizations excel on several dimensions of performance? the book organizational designs for excellence seeks answers to these questions and much more. It discusses the type of management and organizational designs that enable third world organizations to achieve excellence. The book provides a framework and develops models for achieving organizational excellence through appropriate management styles, structures, management systems, goals, strategies, and processes. What makes the book unique is that it discusses not one omnibus excellence but six different kinds of excellence identified by the author, and the organizational designs for each developed by him: competitive excellenceinstitutionalised excellencerejuvenatory excellenceversatile excellencemissionary excellencecreative excellencedrawing upon research in the west and the third world, especially india, to develop the above models, the book affirms that organizational excellence is both attainable and vitally necessary for socio-economic development. The book includes a number of illuminating examples of organizational excellence and also presents several stunning cases of management excellence in the third world. With its unique coverage and novel approach, this lucidly written book would be invaluable to senior managers, researchers and students of management.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Organizational change -- Developing countries.
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Topical Term Organizational effectiveness.
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Topical Term Organizational change.
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Topical Term Developing countries.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Reference Books
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Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Full call number Accession Number Koha item type
Reference Main Library Main Library Reference 20/11/2009 Purchased 1105.00 658.4 KHA 011753 Reference Books

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